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The Dla Piper Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK | $50,000 |
| LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| FUNDACION APPLESEED DE MEXICO AC | $30,000 |
| ONEJUSTICE | $25,000 |
| VECINA | $25,000 |
| LEGAL AID CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| DC ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY GROUP | $20,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC | $15,000 |
| LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TGThe Global FoodBanking Network7× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +47%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION3× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +17%
- NVNATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- DADC Affordable Law Firmgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +423%
- CLChicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +88%
- LLAFone grant, 2018 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawyers Alliance for New York and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DC Affordable Law Firm ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds OneJustice ↗
- Who funds BABSEACLE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc ↗
- Who funds VECINA ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLICY GROUP ↗
- Who funds Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Sidley Austin Foundation · Equal Justice Works · The Skadden Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation · Quinn Emanuel Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Dla Piper Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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